Hermes Trismegistus, [Corpus Hermeticum] De potestate et sapientia Dei. Treviso, Gerardus de Lisa, 1471

First edition of the most essential work of Hermetic philosophy, translated from the Greek into Latin by Marsilio Ficino at the request of the Florentine maecenas Cosimo de Medici. This edition together with the series of reprints which were to follow introduced Hermes Trismegistus to the West on a large scale. The Corpus Hermeticum was believed to be part of the Divine Revelation. The printer Gerardus de Lisa, teacher and humanist, was a Flemish emigrant.